Monday, August 31st, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FashionSPARK Designer Lineup Announced
RALEIGH (August 31, 2009) Fifteen local designers and body artists will show off their latest designs on Sept. 18 for the fourth annual FashionSPARK event. The list includes local favorites and some exciting new faces. Building on the theme of “Wear What You Are,” local talent will take the runway on Fayetteville Street for what promises to be the biggest and best FashionSPARK yet.
Reinforcing the collaborative spirit of SPARKcon, FashionSPARK will call upon some of the area’s most talented hair stylists and makeup artists from salons such as Marigold Parlour, Alter Ego, Salon Blu, Atomic and J&F Gemelli. Designers are also working closely with MusicSPARK producers to secure music from local recording artists for the show, which will begin at 8 pm.
The featured designers are:
Ahpeele (www.ahpeele.bigcartel.com)
Andrea Schmidt
Blue Flame Piercing (www.blueflametattoo.com)
Carolina Wang (www.carolina-wang.com)
Domino (www.jdomino.com)
DRC Clothing (www.drc144k.com)
FYSH Clothing (www.fyshclothing.com)
Goods (www.forthegoods.com)
Katelyn Wells (www.katelynawells.com) with hair accessories by Susan Phelps
LLLavender (www.lllavender.com)
Marie Cordella (www.mariecordella.com)
Metallic Spiral (www.metallicspiral.com)
Raleigh Denim (www.raleighdenim.com)
Revamp (www.avcc-inc.com) with accessories by Good Girls Studio (www.goodgirlsstudio.com)
Tyger Alexis (www.myspace.com/tygeralexis)
FashionSPARK is produced by Allison Beale, with support from Isaac Panzarella, production manager, Jessie Clough, salon coordinator, Angel Feimster-Montoya, talent coordinator, Andi Shelton, ShopSPARK organizer and Jennifer Powell, media coordinator.
About SPARKcon:
SPARKcon showcases local creative talent in the NC Triangle. For four days, Raleigh’s Fayetteville Street, public spaces, clubs and stages will be filled with art, music, dance, film, fashion, design, proposals, and more.
Celebrating local cultural richness and empowering action through an open-source approach to collaboration and cross-pollination, SPARKcon is not a funded city program or an economic development stunt. It’s completely grassroots and by the people for the people! Join us as we explore the creative spirit of the Triangle!
For further information contact:
Allison L. Beale
allison at sparkcon dot com
919-755-3625
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Thursday, August 27th, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
IdeaSPARK to Highlight the Community’s Best Ideas in Fast-Paced Kickoff Event
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RALEIGH (August, 27, 2009) The organizers of SPARKcon have announced their IdeaSPARK lineup for SPARKcon 2009. IdeaSPARK will have a kickoff presentation at 7 p.m. on September 17 at the Marbles Kids Museum in downtown Raleigh. The event will also include a dozen IdeaSPARK 20/20 presentations. Participants will have 20 slides (with just 20 seconds per slide!) to present their best ideas for what the Triangle needs to do next.
Building off a keynote presentation from Henry Copeland, each member of the selected group will have less than seven minutes to present their vision for improving the local community. Following is the list of presentations for IdeaSPARK. An abstract and image of each can be found on the SPARKcon site.
Henry Copeland, “Outside is the New Inside”
Aly Khalifa, “Introduction to SPARKcon 2009”
Wayne Sutton, “19 Reasons Why the Triangle is Better than Silicon Valley”
Atrayus Goode, “From Average to Excellent”
Becky Shankle, “Why 9 to 5 is Inhumane”
Pete Farquhar, “Self-Help Helps Your Money Help Others”
Robin Koch, “Oak City Time Trade”
Beth Yerxa, “Triangle Art/Works: Making Arts Work in the Triangle”
Alan Happ, “Talk About Healthy Humor and Laughter”
Victor Lytvinenko, “Raleigh Denim – Design/Manufacture Business Model”
Dan Douglas, “Big Ideas, Climate Change and the Creative Economy – The Future of Downtown Raleigh”
Dave Winick, “How Much Does Free Transportation Cost?”
IdeaSPARK will be hosted by Scott Gaston. Scott is, among other things, a stand up comic, a motion designer, a NCSU Design School grad, a Durham worker, a Raleigh resident and a lover of Harris Teeter weekly specials.
About SPARKcon:
SPARKcon showcases local creative talent in the NC Triangle. For four days, Raleigh’s Fayetteville St, public spaces, clubs and stages will be filled with art, music, dance, film, fashion, design, proposals, and more.
Celebrating local cultural richness and empowering action through an open-source approach to collaboration and cross-pollination, SPARKcon is not a funded city program or an economic development stunt. It’s completely grassroots and by the people for the people! Join us as we explore the creative spirit of the Triangle!
Contact information:
Aly Khalifa
919-834-3552 x201
aly at sparkcon.com
Monday, August 24th, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (download pdf of press release here)
Henry Copeland, Adblogs Founder, is IdeaSPARK Keynote Speaker for SPARKcon
RALEIGH (August, 24, 2009) The organizers of SPARKcon have announced that Henry Copeland will be the IdeaSPARK keynote speaker for SPARKcon 2009. IdeaSPARK will have a kickoff presentation at 7 pmon September 17 at the Marbles Kids Museum in downtown Raleigh. The event will also include a dozenIdeaSPARK 20/20 presentations. Various members of the community will have 20 slides and 20 seconds per slide to present their best ideas for what the Triangle needs to do next.
Copeland will lead the effort by talking about the new ways cultural and intellectual communities are organizing themselves. About how new hubs of creativity are self-generating beyond the borders of meccas like New York City, Paris and Amsterdam. And about how the principle that “outside is the new inside” is empowered by knowledge-communing tools like Twitter, Facebook and Digg. All this to create a new environment – free of geographical limitations – in what is rapidly becoming a global community knit together from minds, not places.
Henry has spent the better part of the millennium finding new and better ways to connect the blogosphere with advertisers. In 2002, he created Blogads, uniting America’s social media pioneers with advertising dollars spent by a “joyful stew” of entities running the gamut from large corporations to small-scale garage start-ups. Today Blogads represents blog giants like PerezHilton and DailyKos as well as thousands of smaller niche blogs.
A graduate of Yale University, Henry has worked on Wall Street and spent time as a journalist in Eastern Europe before creating Blogads. He sits on the advisory board for SXSW 2010 and on the advisory board of George Washington University’s Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet. In addition to being one of Gawker’s New Dorks of All Media, he was also voted “most argumentative” in the Wooster High class of ’80.
About SPARKcon:
SPARKcon celebrates creativity in the NC Triangle. For 4 days, Raleigh’s Fayetteville St, public spaces, clubs and stages will be filled with art, music, dance, film, fashion, design and more. Showcasing local cultural richness through an open-source approach to collaboration and cross pollination, SPARKcon is not a funded city program or an economic development stunt. It’s completely grass-roots and by the people for the people! Join us as we explore the creative spirit of the Triangle!
Contact information:
Aly Khalifa
919-834-3552 x201
aly at sparkcon dot com
